In the US, publicly funded organizations are required to code their PDF with semantic structure to support machine access by screen readers and other assistive

In the US, publicly funded organizations are required to code their PDF with semantic structure to support machine access by screen readers and other assistive technologies [1], [2]. Given the low adherence to accessibility standards e.g. in academic publishing [3], LLM parsing needs creating a commercial incentive for comparable structured access would be marvelous. [1] https://www.section508.gov/create/pdfs/common-tags-and-usage/ https://www.section508.gov/create/pdfs/common-tags-and-usage... [2] https://pdfa.org/resource/tagged-pdf-best-practice-guide-syntax/ https://pdfa.org/resource/tagged-pdf-best-practice-guide-syn... [3] https://arxiv.org/html/2410.03022v1 https://arxiv.org/html/2410.03022v1